David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. 4) Manage deal flow. 9% (1 / 12). Pitchbot.vc

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

It’s true that FoFs provide LPs a way to purchase VC funds in a basket, but by design these are comparatively narrow actively-managed investment funds rather than broad-based passive vehicles. But no matter how you slice it, FoFs don’t really represent a broad-based way to invest in VC. 3.0x+ cash on cash) is profitable.

LP 176

LP Accredited Investor Carried Interest Portfolio 176

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. Across our partnership we will do 10-12 deals per year and with 5.5 I can’t do every deal.

Software Review 150

Software Review Turkey Portfolio Syndicate 150

View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

The reasons are fairly obvious: It’s easy to reference them and understand their track record; they’ve made a ton of mistakes already that they have hopefully learned from and are unlikely to make again; they are probably more adept at raising and managing capital, which reduces financing risk down the road, etc.

Founder 159

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Startups need to understand how to manage the seed money they receive from investors and VCs. Patent trolls purchase portfolios containing patents and sue companies for infringing them. Law firms that focus on emerging technology companies understand their legal issues from multiple perspectives and offer excellent advice.

Convertible Security 100

Convertible Security IP Technical Review Software Review 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

You Manage What you Measure. One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Or they go in the opposite direction and spend too much time capturing & measuring data that isn’t used to make management decisions. On measurement.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 24, 2022

And to your question specifically, once you start to say, okay, well, where am I in my, I roll on the S curve overall, everything that's required of me, but it very much is a portfolio of curves that you are going to have a number of different curves that you're on within your work. So you're putting together that portfolio.

Leadership 80

Leadership Technical Review Fractional CTO Utah 80

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2022

And to your question specifically, once you start to say, okay, well, where am I in my role on the S curve overall, everything that's required of me, but it very much is a portfolio of curves that you are going to have a number of different curves that you're on within your work. So you're putting together that portfolio.

Leadership 76

Leadership Utah Portfolio Technical Review 76

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

Much like a GPS plans the best route to guide you to your destination, KPIs help project managers stay on track for successful completion. Let’s take a look at the questions that project managers need to be asking, and how the KPIs that are visible through a comprehensive project management software platform can answer them.

Artificial Inteligence 168

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Management Software Developers 168

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TECHSTARS AUSTIN AMOS SCHWARTZFARB REVEALS DETAILS ON SEPT. Austin-based author, tech investor and Managing Director of Techstars Austin Amos Schwartzfarb reveals details for the launch event for his new book “Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Start-Ups,” published by Wiley.

Austin 48

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SVPG

JUNE 16, 2012

” "The company cares about what the leader cares about" - I attribute this to Bill Campbell, the product legend known as the Coach of Silicon Valley, and I argue this applies not just to the CEO, but also to the product managers (the team cares about what the product manager cares about). Very hard for me to pick just ten.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Aggregator Curation Agile 69

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. You'll be responsible for the successful management of the sales organization in order to meet the objectives of the Company. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. You make it happen.

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Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

View from Seed

DECEMBER 11, 2019

But even at the Partner-level, the amount of transition in Venture Capital is much more than you perhaps would expect… especially in a business which should have a long term orientation with portfolio investment-hold periods and Partnerships lasting more than a decade. So why is there so much turnover in Venture Capital? Title subtleties.

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Venture Capital Cap Table Partner LP 204

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 31, 2011

A bunch of our portfolio companies are hiring. But the growth is everywhere – Zynga (throughout the US), AdMeld (NY, London, Berlin), Fitbit (Bay Area), Gnip (Boulder), Oblong (LA), Trada (Boulder), and – well – most of our other portfolio companies.

Seattle 132

Seattle Aggregator Portfolio Email 132

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Attendance is complimentary and exclusively for senior capital markets professionals exclusively focused on emerging trends and technology companies impacting the asset management industry. Carrie Jaquith , Lazard – VP, Digital Product Manager & Head of Emerging Technology Group.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Cofounder Aggregator Equity 60

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? If you do manage to threaten them, they’re more likely to buy you than sue you. What kind of advantage will this create vs. our competitors ? Barriers to entry ?

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By aggregating and anonymizing thousands of data points across hundreds of private companies, we hope to (for the first time ever) provide CEOs with a very real, in-the-moment look at how their board today stacks up against others in similar cohorts. VC partners will be able to see patterns across the entire portfolio. .

Aggregator 71

Aggregator Portfolio Networking Design 71

David Teten

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive. From the point of view of a limited partner, the great challenge is scaling the business. . - Providing standardized operational support for portfolio companies. They’re also inflation-hedged.

Early Stage 148

Early Stage Private Equity Portfolio Aggregator 148

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner. President and CEO, Complete Genomics. Dan'l Lewin.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m an Ashley Mayer superfan so beyond the affinity, have been fortunate enough to also bring her into Homebrew as an advisor to our portfolio companies, and invest in Coalition , a venture firm she founded along with three other amazing female operators. We had overlapping circles and then became friends. Enter Box. They gave me a shot.

IPO 91

IPO Cofounder Early Stage Portfolio 91

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In conversation with a16z managing partner Jeff Jordan (and former CEO of OpenTable and former GM of eBay among other things) — so, from all sides of investing, operating, life — Annie shares tips for decision makers of all kinds making decisions under uncertainty… really, all of us. Jeff: Yeah. That resonates a lot.

San Antonio 36

San Antonio Aggregator Jordan Stock 36

Version One Ventures

AUGUST 16, 2017

George Psiharis (the awesome VP of Business Operations at Clio ) reached out with a great suggestion: connect the data teams across our portfolio companies with the goal of building a peer network to share best practices, and together push the bar on data science innovation. At Kinnek , they’ve assigned a “data liaison” to each team.

San Francisco 87

San Francisco Metrics SQL Portfolio 87

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level. What Do VC’s Do?

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By aggregating and anonymizing thousands of data points across hundreds of private companies, we hope to (for the first time ever) provide CEOs with a very real, in-the-moment look at how their board today stacks up against others in similar cohorts. VC partners will be able to see patterns across the entire portfolio. .

Aggregator 48

Aggregator Portfolio Networking Design 48

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Aggregated search engine level analysis. The reason I love the above view is that for each channel, I'm able to present our management team a simple, yet powerful, understanding of the contribution of our marketing channels – including search. Where we are out of luck is taking things down from here to the keyword level.

Search 154

Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

To bring an additional perspective to the conversation, I invited Lightspeed portfolio companies BloomReach, EdgeSpring, MapR, Nutanix, PernixData and Virtual Instruments who are focused on helping companies store, manage, analyze, and surface next-generation data and content.

Business Model 153

Business Model Distribution Aggregator Channel 153

ithacaVC

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

For example, “VC will serve as the lead investor up to $400,000; Company would source balance of the round up to $600,000 (so round size would be up to $1,000,000 in the aggregate).”. I like the practice of VCs giving term sheets that provide for a specific size for the total round and then stating how much the specific VC will contribute.

Term Sheet 71

Term Sheet Aggregator Lead Investor Early Stage 71

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. Understanding the motivation and path they have taken up to this point. How does someone get access to you? (22:00-33:00).

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. This is one book-end of the cycle.

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

Currently, entrepreneurs are prohibited from doing so under the Securities Act of 1933, which requires companies who wish to sell securities to register and provide extensive information about strategy, future plans, ownership, management, etc. Currently, these Crowdfunding sites don’t give donors any equity in the companies.

Securities and Exchange Commission 148

Securities and Exchange Commission IRR Entrepreneur Angel Investor 148

Austin Startup

JANUARY 13, 2018

A week and a half later, we’re in a good rhythm and things are pretty manageable. Crypto is a bubble, and while I understand the value in a decentralized and distributed ledger, I believe the near-term economic impact of the actual blockchain technology is <10% of the current aggregate crypto market cap.

Austin 48

Austin Aggregator Portfolio Distribution 48

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Recommendations can be powered by aggregate data, which determines the relevance of a certain item in relation to a given context, or user specific data, that fuels personalized recommendations. Here, an item can mean a piece of content, a product, or even a person (in the case of dating sites, for instance). Popular Products.

Conversion 48

Conversion Product Technical Review Widget 48

Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 4, 2020

ones will create benefits for both countries and the world at large, and Joe is extremely well-suited to manage this cross-cultural effort. Increasing cooperation and collaboration between U.S. companies and U.K. And I have gotten to know Joe as a friend after he moved to Silicon Valley last year.

United States 28

United States Silicon Valley Artificial Inteligence San Francisco 28

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09! This is a significant guidance revision, which shows the current focus and mindset of the management of these companies.

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

A marketing/PR agency may have a flashy portfolio that impresses you with their big name clients, but for a startup or small business, paying thousands each month to such an agency isn’t going to be good bang for your (limited) buck. Managing a Business Sales and Marketing entrepreneur entrepreneurship startup YEC yec.co

PR 145

PR Small Business SEO Warrant 145

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). Lisa Edgar, Managing Director at fund of funds Top Tier Capital Partners , observed: “It’s not surprising that venture capitalists are using software to help manage their business.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60